Nicole Ari Parker Quotes

We are our children's first teachers.

My job is to help parents give their children the best start in life.

The first decade of your life is really important; it's formative.

I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the world, and develop skills, emotional intelligence, to enjoy life, and I'm lucky to be able to do that and have two healthy, normal boys.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Many people think that discipline is the essence of parenting. But that isn't parenting. Parenting is not telling your child what to do when he or she misbehaves. Parenting is providing the conditions in which a child can realize his or her full human potential.

It's very important, once you are a parent, that you educate your kid day by day.

To know that everything we say and do to this new little human being may have a profound effect on him or her is a daunting obligation.

Modern parents want to nurture so skillfully that Mother Nature will gasp in admiration at the marvels their parenting produces from the soft clay of children.

Nothing is of greater importance than the right early instruction of youth.

You've got to keep the child alive; you can't create without it.

You need a whole community to raise a child. I have raised two children, alone.

All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood.

Parents can plant magic in a child's mind through certain words spoken with some thrilling quality of voice, some uplift of the heart and spirit.

In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole a bit of my son's childhood.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

To me, Slow parenting is about bringing balance into the home. Children need to strive and struggle and stretch themselves, but that does not mean childhood should be a race. Slow parents give their children plenty of time and space to explore the world on their own terms.

The parents have not only to train their children: it is of at least equal importance that they should train themselves.

It's vital that we help them get the right start, nurture their development and provide for their well-being.

My kids get everything they want and are raised well.

It is a truism that children need more of Mother than of money.

Of course, the ideal scenario for parenting is obviously two parents of a mature age.

Young children were sooner allured by love, than driven by beating, to attain good learning.

There is in every child at every stage a new miracle of vigorous unfolding, which constitutes a new hope and a new responsibility for all.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?